Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Series
We were liars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during...
4) Pandemonium
Author
Series
Delirium trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"--an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love--but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.
5) The outliers
Author
Series
Outliers trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her best friend Cassie sends her a cryptic note asking for help, Wylie sets out to find her with Jasper, the guy who set Cassie off the rails. As Wylie and Jasper head farther and farther north into the dense woods of Maine, Wylie struggles to control her growing sense that something is really wrong.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruth, grieving her father's death, is pregnant and sent to a convent to await the baby's birth. Dora's abusive father is finally behind bars, but she feels she'll never truly be free from him. Alyce earns a dance scholarship, but struggles with the guilt of adandoning her father. And Hank, on the run with his two younger brothers, finds keeping them safe is harder outside their unhealthy home than he imagined. As each of these Alaskan teens trudge...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening.
10) Flipped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. You never forget your first love.
11) Concrete rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
12) 14 ways to die
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Simmons becomes the star of a YouTube reality series, and she uses her fame to catch her mother's murderer.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of Harpercollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A year after losing her boyfriend, Trent, in an unexpected accident, Quinn Sullivan secretly tracks down the recipient of his donated heart in an attempt to heal, but ends up falling for him.
14) A girl called Al
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A seventh-grade girl, her slightly fat girl friend, Al, and the assistant superintendent of their apartment building form a mutually needed friendship with the usual--and a few unusual--joys and sorrows.
15) On the come up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral—for all the...
16) Loveless
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum — coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy — there are many...
17) What light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon -- it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other. By reputation, Caleb is...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
19) Girl in Pieces
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Kyle learns that his mother has been having an affair and his father has been living with the secret, his reality is altered. But Kyle's parents want him to keep this secret from the rest of the family until after what might be their last big summer reunion. Kyle feels the walls of his relationships closing in, and has to decide what his obligations are to everyone he cares for.